Word: stealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gather momentum for any convincing love-making. Eleanor Powell has too few moments for her tapping specialty; George Murphy, singer of songs, finds himself trying rather unsuccessfully to follow Miss Powell's steps; Robert Benchley doesn't say anything really funny. Only Buddy Ebsen is himself, bit player and stealer of shows...
...Play Actor David Garrick fits the Hollywood gag into the elaborate frame of Georgian humor. Garrick, who played Macbeth in the uniform of a Hanoverian general, might have enjoyed this modernization. He probably would have chuckled at his 1937 impersonator, debonair, English Brian Aherne, stealing scenes from noted Scene-Stealer Edward Everett Horton, but would certainly have advised some rewriting in the interest of pace...
...game against the Boston Braves. In the eighth inning, Boston's famed Shortstop Rabbit Maranville, who in the fifth inning had hit his first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with the lower part of his left leg grotesquely dangling...
...HATTER MYSTERY - John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). London's jolly hat stealer makes a grave error, brings scandal and murder to a proud family. Reluctantly, rotund Dr. Fell finds the guilty member...
...Johns two days later an unemployed man walked up to Sir Richard Squires, seized the Premier's pipe, stuck it in his own mouth and walked off smoking, unmolested. Pipeless Sir Richard too walked off unmolested (by a crowd of the unemployed who cheered the pipe-stealer...